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Thread #102952   Message #2093958
Posted By: Azizi
04-Jul-07 - 11:09 AM
Thread Name: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
Subject: RE: Ain't Songs & Rhymes
is the song "Aint Gonna Grieve No More" listed on this thread already?

That religious song interests me partly because of its use as a non-religious song.

As a kid, I remember singing that line as "Ain't Gonna Meet My Lord No More" as "Aint gonna meet my lord no more". I'd sing it along with a rhyming insult [diss; put-down] verse like this:

Oh you'll never get to heaven
with Debbie's face
cause Debbie's face
is ah disgrace.
Oh you'll never get to heaven with Debbie's face
cause Debbie's face is ah disgrace.
Aint gonna meet my lord no more.

-snip-

That's the only verse that I can remember. I don't know if we {my sisters,friends and I} sung any other verses to that song.

But I do know that we had NO idea that this song was based on a spiritual or gospel or whatever genre of African American religious song that "Aint Gonna Grieve My Lord No More" is.

By the way, as I wrote in that thread whose link I provided, I think that title is supposed to read," Ain't gonna grieve, my Lord, no more" with "my lord" being an interjection. I believe that this sentence meant that the person wasn't going to grieve anymore {for whatever reason he or she was grieving} and not that the person was going to grieve the Lord {God or Jesus} anymore.

Of course, there are some who may still disagree with this interpretation of that line.

:o}